The Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini (previously known as the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, and sometimes referred to in English as the Bologna Conservatory) is a
college of music in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
,
Italy
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. The conservatory opened on 3 December 1804, as the Liceo Musicale di Bologna. It was initially housed in the convent at the
Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore. The first faculty at the school included the composers
Stanislao Mattei
Stanislao Mattei, O.F.M. Conv. (10 February 1750, in Bologna – 17 May 1825, in Bologna), was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who was a noted composer, musicologist, and music teacher of his era.
Life
Mattei was born in Bologna, then pa ...
and
Giovanni Callisto Zanotti, and the composer and singer
Lorenzo Gibelli.
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards ...
was a pupil at the school beginning in 1806, and was appointed head of the school in 1839. Later directors of the school included
Luigi Mancinelli (1881-1886),
Giuseppe Martucci
Giuseppe Martucci (; 6 January 1856, in Capua – 1 June 1909, in Naples) was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. Sometimes called "the Italian Brahms", Martucci was notable among Italian composers of the era in that he dedicate ...
(1886-1902),
Marco Enrico Bossi
Marco Enrico Bossi (25 April 1861 – 20 February 1925) was an Italian organist, composer, improviser and teacher.
Life
Bossi was born in Salò, a town in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, into a family of musicians. His father, Pietro, was ...
(1902-1911), and
Cesare Nordio (1925-1945).
In 1945, the conservatory became a state conservatory, and it was rebranded as the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini, after musician and composer
Giovanni Battista Martini
Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini, O.F.M. Conv. (24 April 1706 – 3 August 1784), also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar, who was a leading musician, composer, and music historian of the per ...
. Directors of the conservatory from this point on include
Guido Guerrini,
Lino Liviabella,
Adone Zecchi,
Giordano Noferini,
Lidia Proietti,
Carmine Carrisi, and
Donatella Pieri.
Notable alumni
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Marietta Alboni
Maria Anna Marzia (called Marietta) Alboni (6 March 1826 – 23 June 1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. She is considered "one of the greatest contraltos in operatic history".
Biography
Alboni was born at Città di Castello, i ...
[* ]Arthur Pougin
Arthur Pougin ( 6 August 1834 – 8 August 1921) was a French musical and dramatic critic and writer. He was born at Châteauroux (Indre) and studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris under Alard (violin) and Reber (harmony). In 1855 he becam ...
, ''Marietta Alboni'' (Paris, 1912; accessible for free online a
gallica.bnf.fr Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Alice Barbi
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Gianni Bedori
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Chiara Benati
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Giacomo Benvenuti
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Marco Enrico Bossi
Marco Enrico Bossi (25 April 1861 – 20 February 1925) was an Italian organist, composer, improviser and teacher.
Life
Bossi was born in Salò, a town in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, into a family of musicians. His father, Pietro, was ...
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Claudio Brizi
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Piero Buscaroli
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Luciano Chessa
Luciano Chessa (, born January 12, 1971, in Sassari, Italy) is a musician, performance/visual/installation artist, and musicologist.
As a composer, conductor, pianist, and musical saw / Đàn bầu, Vietnamese dan bau soloist, Luciano Chessa ha ...
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Giuliano Ciannella
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Ettore Campogalliani
Ettore Campogalliani (30 September 1903 – 3 June 1992) was an Italian composer, musician and teacher.
Campogalliani studied piano in 1921, graduating from the Conservatory of Bologna. He then studied composition at the Conservatory of Parma in ...
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Giulio Confalonieri
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Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer.
Biography
Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the Milan Conservatory ...
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Gaetano Donizetti
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Enrico Elisi
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Mafalda Favero
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Franco Ferrara
Franco Ferrara (Palermo, 4 July 1911Florence, 7 September 1985) was an Italian conductor and teacher. Among his many students are various prominent conductors, including Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Andrew Davis and Riccardo Muti.
Life and ...
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Rodolfo Ferrari[Rosa, ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'']
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Carlo Forlivesi
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Gaetano Gaspari
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Giorgio Federico Ghedini
Giorgio Federico Ghedini (11 July 189225 March 1965) was an Italian composer. In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on the American novella ''Billy Budd'' by Herman Melville.
Life
Ghedini was born in Cuneo i ...
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Júlíus Vífill Ingvarsson
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Gian Francesco Malipiero
Gian Francesco Malipiero (; 18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.
Life Early years
Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, G ...
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Gianfranco Masini
Gianfranco Masini (26 November 1937 – 18 June 1993) was an Italian orchestra conductor, primarily known for conducting opera. During the course of his career he was a principal conductor at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste and at the ...
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Giacomo Orefice
Giacomo Orefice (27 August 1865 – 22 December 1922) was an Italian composer.
He was born in Vicenza. He studied under Alessandro Busi and Luigi Mancinelli at the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, and later became professor of composition at the ...
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Luigi Piazza
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Ciro Pinsuti
Ciro Pinsuti (9 May 1829 – 10 March 1888) was an Anglo-Italian composer. Educated in music for a career as a pianist, he studied composition under Rossini. From 1848 he made his home in England, where he became a teacher of singing, and in ...
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Ezio Pinza
Ezio Fortunato Pinza (May 18, 1892May 9, 1957) was an Italian opera singer. Pinza possessed a rich, smooth and sonorous voice, with a flexibility unusual for a bass. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 ...
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Claudia Pinza Bozzolla
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Manuel Ponce
Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948) was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a mostly forgotten traditi ...
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Ottorino Respighi
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Andrea Roncato
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards ...
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Albert Spalding
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Enea Scala
Enea Scala is an Italian operatic tenor in the belcanto field, known internationally as a performer of Rossini's roles such as Rinaldo in Armida, Argirio in Tancredi, Pirro in Hermione, Idreno in Semiramide and Otello. He has appeared at major ...
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Riccardo Stracciari
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Giovanni Tadolini
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Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini
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Fabio Vacchi
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Celso Valli
Celso Valli (born 14 May 1950) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and record producer.
Born in Bologna, Valli studied at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini. He made his official debut collaborating with Drupi in his 1978 alb ...
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Franco Venturini
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Manuel Viscasillas Bernal
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Corrado Zambelli
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Fio Zanotti
Notable faculty
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Marcello Abbado
Marcello Abbado (7 October 19264 June 2020) was an Italian pianist, composer, conductor and academic teacher. His compositions include several orchestral works, two ballets, numerous pieces for solo piano, and chamber music. As a pianist, he pla ...
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Cesare Augusto
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Nazario Carlo Bellandi
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Alessandro Busi
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Ettore Desderi
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Benedetto Donelli
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Ines Maria Ferraris
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Gian Felice Fugazza
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Gaetano Gaspari
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Stefano Golinelli
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Adriano Guarnieri
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The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (german: IV. Olympische Winterspiele) and c ...
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Leone Magiera
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Luigi Mancinelli
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Giacomo Manzoni
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Giuseppe Martucci
Giuseppe Martucci (; 6 January 1856, in Capua – 1 June 1909, in Naples) was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. Sometimes called "the Italian Brahms", Martucci was notable among Italian composers of the era in that he dedicate ...
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Antonio Melandri
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Luigi Mostacci
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Riccardo Nielsen
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Umberto Pineschi[http://www.tumaproductions.com/index.php/scheda/show/109]
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Paolo Ravaglia
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Paolo Renosto
Paolo Renosto (10 October 1935 – 10 February 1988) was an Italian composer, conductor and pianist.
Born in Florence, Renosto was educated at the conservatory of his hometown, where he studied piano and composition. He later became a pupil, a ...
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards ...
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Alessandro Solbiati
Alessandro Solbiati (born 9 September 1956) is an Italian composer of classical music, who composed instrumental music for chamber ensembles and orchestra, art songs and operas. He received international commissions and awards, and many of his wor ...
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Alessandro Vezzani
See also
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Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna
The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna ("philharmonic academy of Bologna"; sometimes known in English as the Bologna Academy of Music) is a music education institution in Bologna, Italy.
The Accademia de' Filarmonici was founded as an associ ...
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Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica
The Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica is a music museum and music library in the Palazzo Aldini Sanguinetti, in the historic center of Bologna, Italy.
Museum
Background
The Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale was founded in 1959 ...
References
Sources
*Allitt, John Stewart (1991), ''Donizetti – in the light of romanticism and the teaching of Johann Simon Mayr'', Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK: Element Books. Also se
Allitt's website
External links
Official Website of Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini
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Music schools in Italy
Culture in Bologna
1804 establishments in Italy
Educational institutions established in 1804